Sand Saga Insider: December 2025

Patrik Harag, 2026-01-03

Hello everyone! December was mainly about polishing human behavior and reactions, and also about looking back at everything that happened during 2025. Below is a summary of the last updates of the year, followed by a short retrospective and a look ahead.

Additions

Human Improvements
Humans now react with panic to various dangerous situations. They also move their hands in different contexts, for example when holding a weapon, panicking, or pointing at something. In the future, this should be extended with additional states and subtle movement during walking to make them feel even more alive.

Highlights of 2025

Another year is behind us, so lets do a quick recap.

• The biggest and most complex addition was Humans, which moved the game to a whole new level.
• Several new game features were added, such as Burner, Colorizer, Sign, Glue, and others.
• New scenarios were introduced.
• Templates were introduced.
• The platform itself was improved, including the Workshop.
• Modding support was significantly extended.

Modders embraced the new tools and created some truly crazy and impressive things.

Further Development

As usual, I do not have a strict plan. In the near future, I will likely step back a bit from humans and focus on something else for a change. Humans are already in a fairly good shape, but I would still like to refine them further so more scenarios can be built around them. This includes both official and user-created scenarios where the goal could be to control a civilian or a soldier and complete a specific task. Other possible directions include experiments with sound, improvements to core mechanics, or adding entirely new features / materials / entities. It would probably also be good to make a new video showcasing recent additions like humans.

In the coming year, development will continue in a similar way as before. I am an adult with a full-time job, a girlfriend, active in sports, renovating a country house, taking care of the lawn, and researching my genealogy. The game does not earn enough to justify limiting my other activities.

Conclusion

Finally, I would like to thank you all for your support throughout the year.
It truly means a lot.